This document provides an overview of program management from the perspective of Troy Ma. It covers a variety of topics related to successful program management, including the importance of communication skills, building consensus, confidence, and passion. It also discusses best practices for meetings, leadership, managing teams, and building a career in program management. The overall message is that program management is about managing people and relationships through strong communication, interpersonal skills, and a passion for the work.
How to Avoid Paralysis by Analysis when Creating Your Membership SiteThe Membership Guys
Creating a membership website involves a lot more work than most people expect.
Memberships have a lot of moving pieces; not just on the technology front, but also when it comes to strategy, marketing and the day to day logistics too.
In this episode of The Membership Guys Podcast, I discuss the steps you need to take in order to overcome “Paralysis by Analysis” – the situation where you’re so bogged down in overthinking every little thing that you get stuck in the mud, not making progress.
Seeking Wisdom is a podcast that deals with many topics -- ranging from life, to fitness, to entrepreneurship, to the work-life balance.
The show has two hosts. One is 5X startup founder, David Cancel. The other David Gerhardt, a marketer whose career is beginning to take off. David and Dave work together at Drift (a live chat messaging app based in Cambridge, Massachusetts).
It’s a different kind of show -- and people are really liking it.
With over 30 episodes out -- David and Dave have discussed many life lessons on the show and want to share them with you here.
The Seeking Wisdom podcast is supported by a community of listeners who want to get better every day. This slideshare is meant to take the top pieces of advice from the podcast and share them with this community.
Follow Seeking Wisdom Here:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/seekingwisdomio
Medium: https://seekingwisdom.io/
Listen to Seeking Wisdom Here:
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/seekingwisdom
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/seeking-wisdom/id1072506427?mt=2
OverCast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1072506427/seeking-wisdom
Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/david-cancel/seeking-wisdom
RSS: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:193080377/sounds.rss
Follow David (https://twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (https://twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.
How To Break Through Your Creative Roadblocks: Learn From Your PeersEngagious
Some people measure creative blocks in terms of weeks or even MONTHS.
>> The fears that hold you back are all centered around how people view you: either not living up to expectations of being judged harshly.
>> "The rest of the organization seems to adore everything I do, but I'm constantly suffering from imposter syndrome" Sound familiar?
>> "I fear that I'm too old and everything is young and hip and fast and techy and no one will honor the life wisdom and worldwide experiences I bring to my craft." Can you relate?
>>"I find myself often choosing the safer path knowing it will be accepted rather than taking risks that I know could result in something great." Is this you?
Find out how your creative peers are tackling these same issues.
Great Talks Start with Great Proposals: An IA Summit Virtual WebinarRuss U
The IA Summit and User Interface Engineering (UIE) are teaming up to present a free webinar about creating great presentation proposals.
Learn how to organize proposals in the way the most successful conference creators like to see. Our experts will discuss how to generate presentation ideas, choose a topic, and write a compelling abstract. They’ll also have tips specific to submitting a session proposal for the 2014 IA Summit.
First-hand insight from experienced speakers
UIE’s Adam Churchill will be our webinar host. He’ll be joined by two people with deep experience in both public speaking and organizing events:
Samantha Starmer
Samantha Starmer is Vice President of Customer Experience for Razorfish’s national Commerce and Content practice. Prior to Razorfish, Samantha was Director of Customer Experience at REI, a leading national outdoor retail co-op.
Samantha has led both workshops and presentations at the IA Summit, including full-day workshops on design for cross-channel experiences in 2011 and 2012. She is the coauthor of the forthcoming “Speaker Camp.”
Russ Unger
Russ is the Experience Design Director for GE Capital Americas. He’s also the coauthor of “A Project Guide to UX Design”, “Designing the Conversation”, and the upcoming “Speaker Camp”.
Russ’s name has been on a great many IA Summit programs, including the popular career workshop he has led for the last several years.
Presented by User Interface Engineering
User Interface Engineering is a leading research, training, and consulting firm specializing in web site and product usability. With in-depth research findings based on user observation, UIE empowers development teams to create usable web sites that increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. UIE was founded 25 years ago by Jared M. Spool and has developed into the largest organization of its kind in the world.
Part three coaching_j_flaherty_09102105John Gillis
“This is heavy reading, but well worth it. Remember your college philosophy classes and associated textbooks? Well, Flaherty takes the beauty and probing questions of philosophy and creates practical use of them by applying them to the art of coaching. Flaherty relies heavily on a few of his favorite modern philosophers, and takes their discoveries and theories and converts them into assessment models, enrollment techniques, etc. What you end up with is a very lucid, free flowing book that allows the coach to see the client as a human being with varying motivations, competencies, agendas, etc., and frees us from the trap of attempting to coach our clients into becoming ourselves (someone with our values, motivations, etc.); instead allowing them to grow into their own self-correcting, self-generating person.” Amazon Customer "Child of the World.” She says it in a nutshell. Those philosophers include Fernando Flores, Humberto Maturana, and William Barrett, whom you might not have heard of; and several you probably have. But Flaherty simplifies into practicality and usability. If you coach, or want to be one, his work is stunningly necessary.
How to Avoid Paralysis by Analysis when Creating Your Membership SiteThe Membership Guys
Creating a membership website involves a lot more work than most people expect.
Memberships have a lot of moving pieces; not just on the technology front, but also when it comes to strategy, marketing and the day to day logistics too.
In this episode of The Membership Guys Podcast, I discuss the steps you need to take in order to overcome “Paralysis by Analysis” – the situation where you’re so bogged down in overthinking every little thing that you get stuck in the mud, not making progress.
Seeking Wisdom is a podcast that deals with many topics -- ranging from life, to fitness, to entrepreneurship, to the work-life balance.
The show has two hosts. One is 5X startup founder, David Cancel. The other David Gerhardt, a marketer whose career is beginning to take off. David and Dave work together at Drift (a live chat messaging app based in Cambridge, Massachusetts).
It’s a different kind of show -- and people are really liking it.
With over 30 episodes out -- David and Dave have discussed many life lessons on the show and want to share them with you here.
The Seeking Wisdom podcast is supported by a community of listeners who want to get better every day. This slideshare is meant to take the top pieces of advice from the podcast and share them with this community.
Follow Seeking Wisdom Here:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/seekingwisdomio
Medium: https://seekingwisdom.io/
Listen to Seeking Wisdom Here:
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/seekingwisdom
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/seeking-wisdom/id1072506427?mt=2
OverCast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1072506427/seeking-wisdom
Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/david-cancel/seeking-wisdom
RSS: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:193080377/sounds.rss
Follow David (https://twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (https://twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.
How To Break Through Your Creative Roadblocks: Learn From Your PeersEngagious
Some people measure creative blocks in terms of weeks or even MONTHS.
>> The fears that hold you back are all centered around how people view you: either not living up to expectations of being judged harshly.
>> "The rest of the organization seems to adore everything I do, but I'm constantly suffering from imposter syndrome" Sound familiar?
>> "I fear that I'm too old and everything is young and hip and fast and techy and no one will honor the life wisdom and worldwide experiences I bring to my craft." Can you relate?
>>"I find myself often choosing the safer path knowing it will be accepted rather than taking risks that I know could result in something great." Is this you?
Find out how your creative peers are tackling these same issues.
Great Talks Start with Great Proposals: An IA Summit Virtual WebinarRuss U
The IA Summit and User Interface Engineering (UIE) are teaming up to present a free webinar about creating great presentation proposals.
Learn how to organize proposals in the way the most successful conference creators like to see. Our experts will discuss how to generate presentation ideas, choose a topic, and write a compelling abstract. They’ll also have tips specific to submitting a session proposal for the 2014 IA Summit.
First-hand insight from experienced speakers
UIE’s Adam Churchill will be our webinar host. He’ll be joined by two people with deep experience in both public speaking and organizing events:
Samantha Starmer
Samantha Starmer is Vice President of Customer Experience for Razorfish’s national Commerce and Content practice. Prior to Razorfish, Samantha was Director of Customer Experience at REI, a leading national outdoor retail co-op.
Samantha has led both workshops and presentations at the IA Summit, including full-day workshops on design for cross-channel experiences in 2011 and 2012. She is the coauthor of the forthcoming “Speaker Camp.”
Russ Unger
Russ is the Experience Design Director for GE Capital Americas. He’s also the coauthor of “A Project Guide to UX Design”, “Designing the Conversation”, and the upcoming “Speaker Camp”.
Russ’s name has been on a great many IA Summit programs, including the popular career workshop he has led for the last several years.
Presented by User Interface Engineering
User Interface Engineering is a leading research, training, and consulting firm specializing in web site and product usability. With in-depth research findings based on user observation, UIE empowers development teams to create usable web sites that increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. UIE was founded 25 years ago by Jared M. Spool and has developed into the largest organization of its kind in the world.
Part three coaching_j_flaherty_09102105John Gillis
“This is heavy reading, but well worth it. Remember your college philosophy classes and associated textbooks? Well, Flaherty takes the beauty and probing questions of philosophy and creates practical use of them by applying them to the art of coaching. Flaherty relies heavily on a few of his favorite modern philosophers, and takes their discoveries and theories and converts them into assessment models, enrollment techniques, etc. What you end up with is a very lucid, free flowing book that allows the coach to see the client as a human being with varying motivations, competencies, agendas, etc., and frees us from the trap of attempting to coach our clients into becoming ourselves (someone with our values, motivations, etc.); instead allowing them to grow into their own self-correcting, self-generating person.” Amazon Customer "Child of the World.” She says it in a nutshell. Those philosophers include Fernando Flores, Humberto Maturana, and William Barrett, whom you might not have heard of; and several you probably have. But Flaherty simplifies into practicality and usability. If you coach, or want to be one, his work is stunningly necessary.
I had a burning desire to motivate my staff into generating ideas that would RADICALLY improve my department and support the goals and mission of our agency.
From my experience, in a typical mind mapping session, usually many ideas are developed, some innovative, perhaps, but rarely “Radical.” I wanted to change that paradigm from an idea, which could make a difference to blowing the doors off the walls.
Everyone has doubts while they are in job search. Learn how to strengthen your self confidence in life and job search. The process begins with small steps and positive thinking that we will explore in the session. You can apply these principles throughout the days and weeks ahead to gain confidence from day to day.
f you’re looking to build bigger and better ideas, you need to get feedback.
To get effective feedback you need to be able to explain your ideas clearly, really listen (listening is not just hearing!), slow down to make sure you are on the right path and most importantly be ready to kill bad ideas.
Deliverable: Do people understand the idea, what do they think of the idea, are we making progress. If there is no good hope of progress, kill the idea
Discussing Design Without Losing your Mind [Code and Creativity 10/7]Aaron Irizarry
Getting feedback from clients, teams, and stakeholders can be terrifying. We’ve all had our designs berated during painful meetings that result in nothing actionable or useful.
This presentation provides tips and techniques for improving the conversations you have surrounding design with your teams, clients, and organizations.
Meetings get a bad rap for being inefficient due to the duration, the size of audience, the preparation, and the list goes on. But the problem is much simpler to solve and starts with recognizing that your meetings should be a productive endeavour geared towards solving a need.
Breaking the Code of Interview Implicit Bias to Value Different Gender Compet...Deanna Kosaraju
Breaking the Code of Interview Implicit Bias to Value Different Gender Competencies
Bonita Banducci, Banducci Consulting
Live at Santa Clara University - Room #330C located on the 3rd floor of the Learning Commons
Voices 2015 - www.globaltechwomen.com
Session Length: 1 hour
Implicit Bias Workshops and exercises are being shared widely on the internet. Some of the solutions are:
"Determine precisely what skills and attributes you are hiring for."
"Ask exactly the same questions to each candidate."
But what about the implicit bias in determining what skills you are valuing--beyond traditional management and leadership competencies?
How can interviewers recognize the often invisible, unarticulated, undervalued and often misinterpreted competencies of more "relational and collectivist" people--often women and men and women from different cultures?
Bonita Banducci teaches Gender and Engineering class in Santa Clara University's School of Engineering Graduate Program. In video and cartoon representation as well as in person, her students apply Gender Competence®--understanding and skills to work with gender (and cultural) differences as competencies--to job interviews both as the interviewer and the interviewee, as men and women. They show how to "mine the gold" of difference for the best candidate AND to get the job as the best candidate while establishing the value of relational competencies in the workplace and marketplace.
I had a burning desire to motivate my staff into generating ideas that would RADICALLY improve my department and support the goals and mission of our agency.
From my experience, in a typical mind mapping session, usually many ideas are developed, some innovative, perhaps, but rarely “Radical.” I wanted to change that paradigm from an idea, which could make a difference to blowing the doors off the walls.
Everyone has doubts while they are in job search. Learn how to strengthen your self confidence in life and job search. The process begins with small steps and positive thinking that we will explore in the session. You can apply these principles throughout the days and weeks ahead to gain confidence from day to day.
f you’re looking to build bigger and better ideas, you need to get feedback.
To get effective feedback you need to be able to explain your ideas clearly, really listen (listening is not just hearing!), slow down to make sure you are on the right path and most importantly be ready to kill bad ideas.
Deliverable: Do people understand the idea, what do they think of the idea, are we making progress. If there is no good hope of progress, kill the idea
Discussing Design Without Losing your Mind [Code and Creativity 10/7]Aaron Irizarry
Getting feedback from clients, teams, and stakeholders can be terrifying. We’ve all had our designs berated during painful meetings that result in nothing actionable or useful.
This presentation provides tips and techniques for improving the conversations you have surrounding design with your teams, clients, and organizations.
Meetings get a bad rap for being inefficient due to the duration, the size of audience, the preparation, and the list goes on. But the problem is much simpler to solve and starts with recognizing that your meetings should be a productive endeavour geared towards solving a need.
Breaking the Code of Interview Implicit Bias to Value Different Gender Compet...Deanna Kosaraju
Breaking the Code of Interview Implicit Bias to Value Different Gender Competencies
Bonita Banducci, Banducci Consulting
Live at Santa Clara University - Room #330C located on the 3rd floor of the Learning Commons
Voices 2015 - www.globaltechwomen.com
Session Length: 1 hour
Implicit Bias Workshops and exercises are being shared widely on the internet. Some of the solutions are:
"Determine precisely what skills and attributes you are hiring for."
"Ask exactly the same questions to each candidate."
But what about the implicit bias in determining what skills you are valuing--beyond traditional management and leadership competencies?
How can interviewers recognize the often invisible, unarticulated, undervalued and often misinterpreted competencies of more "relational and collectivist" people--often women and men and women from different cultures?
Bonita Banducci teaches Gender and Engineering class in Santa Clara University's School of Engineering Graduate Program. In video and cartoon representation as well as in person, her students apply Gender Competence®--understanding and skills to work with gender (and cultural) differences as competencies--to job interviews both as the interviewer and the interviewee, as men and women. They show how to "mine the gold" of difference for the best candidate AND to get the job as the best candidate while establishing the value of relational competencies in the workplace and marketplace.
Managing projects effectively has become essential in every organisation large or small. The uncertainties of the world business economy, rapidly changing technology, and the intensifying focus on sustainability has driven many organisations to develop specific methods for managing projects and to seek highly qualified and competent people to manage those projects. These driving factors require today’s project managers to accept and adapt to change, lead diverse teams, act as ambassadors for their organisations and deal with a multitude of challenging project stakeholders.
It is clear that Project managers are placed in a unique position. They must balance their roles as leader and manager, interface with multiple types of stakeholders, are often the "face" of their organisation to its customers, and must deal with a seemingly unending stream of challenges to be successful. These challenges and the ability to address them require the project manager to maintain awareness of personal brand of and the impact it will have on project assignments, career opportunity, and the willingness of project teams to work for and support the project manager. As the profession of project management evolves and the demand for competent and value driven project managers increases, personal brand and reputation have become major factors in the criteria used to select and assign people to project leadership positions.
Indispensable Factors
The project manager must develop skills and competencies in several areas to be considered for an assign. In addition there are 4 major factors a project manager must address and continue to develop:
Accomplishability: your ability to achieve and deliver valued results.
Value/cost: the value delivered perception relative to the cost.
Supply/Demand: the market dynamics of your position, skills, etc.
Likeability: how others perceive you.
This presentation addresses the importance of the professional project manager in today’s business environment and the need for the project manager to continually enhance existing skills, adapt to a changing environment, and become a “go to” person in the organisation. Emphasis is placed on understanding the business needs of an organisation, clearly and visibly creating value from a client and supplier view point, and continually developing and managing personal brand.
Difficult Conversations in Creative Environments ~ IA Summit 2009Dan Brown
Information Architects work in environments that demand close collaboration with other people, primarily clients and colleagues. Design teams of any size need to manage the logistics of the design process, collaborate with each other to solve complex problems, and communicate those ideas effectively. Clients also exert pressure on the design team, presenting the design problem and vetting potential solutions. Successful senior designers and team managers must know how to navigate these waters delicately. Every one of these activities–from clarifying requirements to presenting design ideas to walking through revisions–requires working with other people. Every task on a design project has some element of communication and collaboration. And these infinite touchpoints within the team (designers, managers, stakeholders, and clients alike) represent risks to the project: one misstep and the project can come to a screeching halt.
This workshop is for information architects to help them understand and improve the core communications skills for working with teams and clients. Junior information architects seeking advancement will benefit from this opportunity to explore the crucial skills that separate them from senior designers.
You're smart. You deliver. What more could your company want from you? Why don’t they come to you for the big technical decisions? Why won’t they listen to your proposals? It seems like everyone has an agenda and they’re doing everything they can to kill your great ideas.
We focus on the soft skills that architects need to master. Learning these skills will boost your emotional intelligence and help you become a more professional, well rounded contributor. You’ll gain insight into the architect’s role as leader, influencer, and business professional and learn how to leverage your position to become a positive force within your organization.
Session 1: Mastering the Soft Skills
In this session, we’ll discuss key interpersonal skills and how they can affect your projects and career. We cover how to positively connect with humans, how to participate in and influence the business processes you support, and how to transcend your technical role and maximize your connections with all members of your organization.
Session 2: Organizational Dynamics
This session examines the dynamic nature of large organizations – their structures, decision making processes, and political landscapes. We’ll discuss the goals of key business and technical decision makers and their influence on architects and software projects. We’ll conclude with some strategies for maximizing the soft skills from Session 1 to ensure successful outcomes for your projects and career.
VS Live 2021 Orlando - vst14 feedback skillsAngela Dugan
Feedback helps us to build stronger teams, supports more effective problem-solve and collaboration, and ultimately contributes to delivering better products. Without it, we can spend time focusing on the wrong things, solving the wrong problems, maybe not even knowing about problems in the first place!
So if feedback is critical to us growing and thriving, why aren't we all excitedly showering each other with feedback all the time, and BEGGING others to give it to us? In my experience, people are generally not enthusiastic or confident in their ability to give feedback. Feedback usually isn't happening because feedback feels risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing.
As a manager, leader, and coach of many teams over the last 20+ years, I can help you get a good foothold on where to start. Even better, I can tell you where the bodies are buried so you avoid some of the mistakes I've experienced over the years too.
In this session, we'll warm up with an overview of what feedback is and is not. We'll also review the qualities of high-quality feedback, as well as the other kinds of feedback so you know the difference. We'll finish off with a quick summary of some "tips and tricks" to getting comfortable with giving and receiving candid feedback that has worked really well for me. You'll be a feedback champion before you know it!
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
AI for Every Business: Unlocking Your Product's Universal Potential by VP of ...
Program managementasseenbytroyma
1. Program
Management
-- through the eyes of Troy Ma
email: troy4u@gmail.com
linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/troyma
chirrrrrrp: https://twitter.com/TroyMa4u
2. Warning
This deck may be complete B.S.
This is the world of program management as
seen by Troy Ma
3. Topics
Types of successful PMs
Fundamental rule of PM
Communication
Verbal
Written
Listening
Specs & project setup
Consensus & conviction
Confidence
Passion
Meetings
Interpersonal
Leadership
Managing
Building your career
4. Two types of successful PMs
Breadth Depth
Crowd pleasers (breadth) Super nerds (depth)
• Great at pulling large cross
team projects together
• Good at
People/Relationships
• Knows complicated system
design/architecture
• Can challenge/lead dev
system designs
“you really need some of both”
6. Have you studied “people” lately?
Quotes:
Don’t criticize, condemn or complain
Give honest and sincere appreciation
Arouse in the other person an eager want
Great reads:
How to win friends and influence people
What got you here won’t get you there
The definite book of body language
The art of speedreading people
Story time ;)
7. Verbal Communication
Can you speak clearly ?
Take pronunciation classes
Enroll in public speaking
Can you cut your words in half?
Write down your main point (no more than 2)
Think about how to convey just those 2 points
We don’t need to know every detail
got it why are you still talking? Shut it!
“Let me tell you more”
8. Written Communication
People generally have instant amnesia
Get stuff in writing
Remind people
Summarization
Call out key decisions & action items
Proper email titles
Once written, cut your text by 50%
9. Communicating Up
Feature Crew – details to get work done
• Issues & low level details
• Bugs
Middle Management – decisions
• Decisions & tradeoffs
• Major details summarized
Upper Management – key decisions
CEO –
Summarize & Simplify
10. Listening
Maintain eye contact
Let people get their words out don’t cut in
Acknowledge their thoughts
Repeat back what you heard to confirm
“Never miss a good opportunity to shut up” – Dr. Phil
11. Owning your spec
Credibility
Know your domain
Gather your metrics
Have consensus on the key decisions before your
spec review
Call out the gotcha’s and how to solve them
Follow up – no really, follow up
A spec is summary of the agreements you’ve made
13. Consensus Building
Identify:
Stakeholders
People with strong opinions
Basic process:
Research and think through your idea
Get a few people on your side as support
Think about what big players / opinionated ones will say
Dramatize your idea to the key players and try to settle
their opinions offline
Grab group meeting to “review” decisions
Send out summary to cement decisions
14. Consensus Ninja
80/20 rule: give up on the 20% to win the 80%
In group setting
Small issues:
Give in or squash it
Large issues:
Prep people before hand and have them “chime in”
Use data
If it’s not going your way ask to follow up “offline”
In person:
Settle large issues
Ask yourself if this battle is really worth “winning”
15. Problem in action
Problem: We are building image search and the backend team
wants you to highlight the image filters but you don’t think it is
the best user experience
They believe You believe
16. Understand each other
Understand:
You are dealing with tech zealots
This work is what they do for a living
Data alone won’t be enough
Your 80% – No ugly expanded filters
Your 20% – placement of filters i <3 starcraft
17. Start with 50%
50% is backed up with:
Data
Support from others
“After looking at data and consulting
with design, we think placing the
filters below with 1 color icon is best”
18. The rebuttal
But everyone is a design expert
And everyone “understands”
users
“users won’t be able to find what
they need. We should show all filters
and place it on top”
19. The 20% give
You already know what the
outcome will be
Congrats on being a ninja
“fine, the top has much higher
prominence, let’s compromise on
non expanded filters and run flights
for variations later”
20. Conviction
Social framing: people act based on accepted social norms
Start your conversation as a friend
Never say “you’re wrong”. This includes, “but, however”
Listen, understand and then guide their thoughts
Get data / others on your side
Know when it’s a losing battle and cut your thread
No PM has ever won an argument
21. Confidence
My state of mind
I am the best at my job
I can easily swap roles with any management and rock it – I just need the opportunity
Work on your core
Do you really believe in yourself?
Reflect back on your history of success
But I can’t do <insert b.s.> -- what if I told you:
You will lose the project, if you can’t do <insert b.s.>
You will lose your job, if you can’t do <insert b.s.>
You will lose your family, friends, life, if you can’t do <insert b.s.>
Set new expectations for yourself & readjust your social frame – force yourself to
live up to your own new expectations
Strong self belief mixed with a touch of ignorance and a dash of cockiness
22. This is my cat “Bella”
Youtube inspiration
She’s a kitty cat
Dance!
Dance!
Dance!
23. The art of story telling
Why storytelling?
Easier for people to follow
Easier for people to remember
Related Formats:
Tag lines – summarize your project into 1 memorable sentence
Elevator pitch – explain your idea in 30 sec
The journey
I need to sell the idea and have everyone see the same picture
24. The Journey – Building a toaster
Tada! Here’s my solution:
Step 1: I think I have a good idea of the solution and
need to get people on board
Step 2: let’s brainstorm together and I’ll guide them
through my thoughts
Step 3: let’s refine together
Step 4: Tada! Here’s our solution
OR
25. Does passion matter?
Without passion, it’s hard to put in the extra effort to succeed
love what you do or find something else
26. Meetings
Pre-meeting:
Have an agenda
Set the correct length
Bring the right people
Do the prep work
During meeting:
Know when to cut threads and when to let people waste a few minutes
Push for your goal
Assign names and time for follow ups
After meeting:
Send out notes
Follow up
Know your goal and your desired outcome
27. The “street-cred” of your crew
Respect (professionally):
Solid PM fundamentals: Solid specs, leadership, etc…
Consistency over time
Like:
Strong interpersonal relationships
A mix of how people respect and like you
28. How to get people to like you
Smile
Don’t be a little bitch: no one cares about your problems
Be positive and have a can-do attitude
Try to understand people’s interest and goals and appeal to those
Show appreciation for their work
Demonstrate how you have a team “family” mentality
Plan to spend time with people
29. Leadership
Prerequisite peer respect & self confidence
Actively lead the team into new projects, directions
No one will tell you what to do next, go freakin’ do it
When in doubt, go freakin’ do it
30. With your manager
Set clear expectations
Over communicate status
Understand what your lead wants and how to make his life easier
Know when to push back
Communication: call out big points and drive for decisions
31. With your dev/test peers
What value do you provide AND do your peers value this?
How you earned your credibility at the table?
Are you and your leads speaking the same language?
Communicate: Get down to the concrete issues and drive for
resolution
“my dev/test lead and I are joined at the hip!” – PM Ape
32. Managing
Less sugar coat and corporate talk – be straight up
Set up large areas of ownership
Reinforce good work
Give room for them to fail
Don’t be a stickler on vacation, expenses, etc…
Value people – what’s the best thing I can do for my reports?
33. Delegation
Too much
Lose touch of the
project/team
May lose respect of direct
reports
Too little
Suffocates direct reports
Overloads self burn out
34. Engineer yourself out of a job
Go relax on the beach Move up to bigger challenges
OR
35. Job vs Career
A career is a job with progression
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results
How are you increasing your impact & influence?
36. Build your career
Remember the “don’t be a little bitch rule”?
Where do you stand when compared to your peers?
Set expectations for promotions and actively discuss it
You need more than just your lead’s support
37. Learning
What did you do in school when you knew
something was going to be on a test?
Why do you believe you will just learn everything
you need on the job?
Set out time and concrete goals for learning
Commit to always learn and grow
39. Building your Reputation
Do great work – ship awesome products
Consistency
Do people really like you and respect you?
Do people even know you exists?
No matter where you are, you are always selling yourself